NATURAL SCinXCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 13 



April list. 

 Dr. Bridges iu the Chair. 

 Fifteen members present. 



Mr. Kedfield called the attention of the meeting to the following 

 Memoranda attached to specimens of Schizsea pusilla, in the Herba- 

 rium of N. Y. Lyceum of Nat. Hist. 



" First discovered by Dr. C. W. Eddj-, near Quaker Bridge, in the pine bar- 

 rens of New Jersey, about 30 miles from Philadelphia. Dr. E. was in company 

 with J. LeOonte, Pursh and C. Whitlow, and though he and Mr. LeConte 

 found all the specimens, Pursh has claimed the honor of the discovery him- 

 self." 



Signed, Toerey and Cooper. 



1868. 

 Above is in handwriting of Dr. Torrcy. 



"First found in 1805; not found again till detected by me in company with 

 Dr. Torrey, in June, 1818." 



Signed, Cooper. 



April 21th. 

 The President, Dr. Hays, in the Chair. 



Twenty-three members present. 



The issue of the sixth number of the Proceedings for 1868 was 

 announced. 



The following gentlemen were elected members: 



Isaac S. Fogg, John C. Sinclair, Rev. J. L. Withrow and Henry 

 Bower. 



The following were elected correspondents : 



Albany Hancock, of Kew-Castle-upon-Tyne, England ; and Bre- 

 vet-Major F. Curtis, M. D. 



On favorable Report of the Committees the following papers were 

 ordered to be published : 



On the CETACEANS of the Western Coast of North America. 

 BY C. M. SCAMMON, UNITED STATES MARINE. 



Edited by Edward D. Cope. 



Introductory note by the Editor. 



The present article, by Capt. Scammon, is the result of many years' obser- 

 vation in an almost unexplored and with difficulty explorable department of 

 zoology. It ■WIS submitted by the author to the Smithsonian Institution, with 

 the request that it might be rendered beneficial to science. The Secretary, 

 Prof. Henry, referred it to the editor, with a request to puljlish such parts as 

 should be deemed valuable to zoology, and to add such elucidation and expla- 

 nation as would contribute to the same end. 



In the carrying out of these views of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, a gt'ileral classification has bees made, and a systematic record of the 

 species and genera mentioned in the essay has been prefixed A few species 

 have been inserted from other sources, and the opportunity improved to give 

 descriptions of some species from the Atlantic coasts. 



1869.^ 



